Over at DeSmog blog, the hilarity from the Daily Bayonet Story earlier today continues.
Gotta love this comment from the DeSmog thread:
It makes me think of DeSmoggers James Hoggan or Richard Littlemore shouting this famous Seinfeld line from Frank Costanza:
“I won’t tolerate infestation!”
You have to register there at DeSmog Blog and be approved by the powers that be (they don’t let just anybody make angry rants), so any “infestations” are of their own doing.
UPDATE: 9:40AM 2/28 – This post has become the “top post” aka #1 on WordPress blogs worldwide today. This was probably not the sort of attention DeSmog was seeking. Here’s a screencap from my WordPress dashboard:
I visit Desmog quite often and my comments are usually voted down quickly as I’m viewed as a ‘denialist’ there. It’s actually a fun place to hang out if you keep a sense of humor in your comments. That is the way to drive the regulars bonkers!
Fwiw, there seems to be a lot of new registered users on the warmists side since the Fakegate/Heartland story broke. Desmog must have been doing some serious recruiting to offset all the jibes they’ve been getting from the skeptics.
It is time for the airing of the grievances.
I had to do it. I had to go to DeSmog at wander around, and see what it was all about.
After seeing who the people are who are running it…. They’re abject failures at their trade.
Failures, the lot of them.
I read their articles/editorials, and I was not convinced. In fact, I may feel a little stronger in my convictions after having waded through their incessant insults. Consider:
Highly trained PR masters, gilt with Pulitzers, couldn’t sway me to even bookmark their site for an occasional glance.
Is it only me but do other people also find the ladies on the `singles add’ far more interesting than the Gleik story.
From Philip Bradley on February 27, 2012 at 5:53 pm:
Did you get your shots first?
Philip Finck – A little secret … the advert you see is targeted on your behaviour…. 😉
OT
Congrats on the two Bloggie awards although in some circles that’s gotta be salt in some big open wounds.
Tim Minchin says:
February 27, 2012 at 6:58 pm
Philip Finck – A little secret … the advert you see is targeted on your behaviour…. 😉
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LOL! Very funny! I have seen that a few times by others wondering why those advertisement was there not knowing that it was based on their past “googling” past.
So funny…
We definately have some new yuk yuk phrases available now, though probably not the best for serious debate:
h/t to Tim Minchin for
which may not be as bad as Catastrophic Anthropogenic Global Swarming, but who are we to say?
And a h/t to kbray in california for suggesting Smarming, further defined by John Blake that leads to Catastrophic Anthropogenic Global Smarming, which is the probable way that history will view the wamista cabal. With or without smoothings and side orders of polynominals in irony sauce.
Gotta love it!
To the mods: I apologize for the sloppy html in my post above. Montoya hitting the drying truck and the resulting fire at the Daytona 500 was a serious distraction. My bad.
I registered and waiting for acceptance lol. I have to read some of that drivel.
Politics, money, and politics. Or is it Money, politics, and money. I get them mixed up.
What is really stupid, is that desmogblog focuses exclusively on CO2 and its “ramifications”. CO2 bad! You deny that—you bad! (I’m paraphrasing the basis of their emotional argument). Yet CO2 has nothing to do with smog. Smog is caused by ozone reacting with hydrocarbons. Here is displayed for all to see, the ignorance and the pathetic irony carried by these clowns—they supposedly love ozone, and hate CO2. Clear-cut case of more cognitive dissonance with the wacko eco-crowd. Ignorant of their own foibles.
more laughs:
what is showing on Google as:
Global warming is making the world colder
Adelaide Now – 4 hours ago
has had the headline changed when u open the link:
28 Feb: Australian Adelaide Advertiser: AFP: Melting Arctic causes snowier winters in Europe, the US
http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/world/melting-arctic-causes-snowier-winters/story-e6frea8l-1226283672088
perfect subject for Richard Black:
27 Feb: BBC: Richard Black: Melting Arctic link to cold, snowy UK winters
Whether conditions will get colder still as ice melts further is unclear…
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-17143269
John Blake said @ur momisugly February 27, 2012 at 5:54 pm
Emphasis mine
I am unable to resist! I think you mean pedant; and yes, I are wun 😉
I went to DeSmugBilge once, but it was for investigative purposes only — honest 😉
Kerosene works quite well on crab-lice if you can’t get any DDT emulsion. Just don’t smoke any cigarettes afterwards until its all evaporated/absorbed, or whatever.
Desmog used to be a good site to goto and post a few comments. Since cliamtegate though they have become very militant and angry, generally they will lock out an identified denier within a few days. Up to the 2009 climate conference they we’re hoping for “hard targets” on emissions but after that went belly up and it became apparent governments we’re just playing lip service to the whole agw issue they have become quite radical in their rhetoric. Accusing senators and congressmen of being on the take.
I am not surprised by there latest escapade but it is funny to watch them in there death spiral. I have been banned long ago but I still go back to watch the same 10 – 20 deluded commenters expouse moral outrage at the so called deniers.
Looking forward to the lawsuit as Desmog will not back down, this is the fight they have been waiting for good versus evil. This is there crusade and they will die on the cross before they concede anything to the Heartland Institute.
The endarkened DeSmogBorg:
Of course, as we well know which sides wins:
Dedication to the highest standards of the scientific method questioning everything while maintaining a commitment to integrity, persistence, vigilance to ensure that all the claims have been independently verified or refuted. That’s the Wattian Way. That is the honest Scientific Way.
Probably a good idea to step just a bit further back and consider just who else is famous at Desmogblog, a blogger who started in Jan 2006 just 3 months after Hoggan started the site………
See: “In Case of Heart[land] Attack, Break Glass” http://junkscience.com/2012/02/19/in-case-of-heartland-attack-break-glass/
Excerpts: “There is not one thing new about DeSmogBlog’s attack on the Heartland Institute; in fact, elements of it go all the way back to at least 1992, and one person has been involved in this throughout that entire stretch of time: anti-skeptic book author Ross Gelbspan.”
“And so it goes to this day, anybody who has the audacity to question the idea of man-caused global warming must be marginalized in the eyes of the public by any means possible.”
“Global Swarming”
OMG I about pizzed myself! 🙂
I’ve been wondering….anybody know what is the story behind the name “DeSmog?” Is this supposed to be a reference to smog, as in L.A. back in the seventies? I mean, that problem was dealt with years ago. I just don’t get it………..???
Remember to keep your friends close but your enemies closer.
DeSmog looks exactly as you would expect it to be but examining the actual Hoggan operating mechanism inside is much more interesting and entertaining.
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The best crises are the ones that never happen: calamities that you avoid through thoughtful planning; catastrophes no one notices because you handle them with skill and composure.”
“We help clients identify the optimum frame and establish it in the public mind. In a crisis, we can help lift a story out of a frame that might have been set up by critics”.
“We make it our business to know all that we can about media outlets and the influential individuals within them, all in the interest of enriching your media experience and minimizing unhelpful explosions.”
“For four years our(social media) team has worked with major corporations, government agencies and the non-profit sector to develop and execute cutting-edge social media and online communications.”
TomRude says:
February 27, 2012 at 5:36 pm
Suzuki comments on the Gleick affair…
http://www.straight.com/article-612156/vancouver/david-suzuki-its-time-climatechange-deniers-were-exposed
LOL
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When Suzuki starts out saying- “When hackers broke into [CRU]… and selectively released massive amounts of correspondence…”
you just know the rest of his screed is going to be an even bigger laff riot.
Some people actually pay attention to that guy… probably people with the same abilities to sift and process information as those who ‘fall in love’ with and marry death row inmates.
Al Gored says:
February 27, 2012 at 5:07 pm
[snip – over the top -Anthony]
Yes it was. Pardon me. I get carried away when I get that swarming feeling.
Infested with swarms of anti-consensus.